Pennsylvania Receives $16 Million from Experian, T-Mobile Over Data Breaches

Attorney General Josh Shapiro announced today that Pennsylvania, along with a coalition of other attorneys general, has obtained two multistate settlements with Experian concerning data breaches it experienced in 2012 and 2015 that compromised the personal information of 484,147 Pennsylvanians. An additional settlement was reached with T-Mobile in connection with the 2015 Experian breach, which impacted more than 400,000 Pennsylvania consumers who submitted credit applications with T-Mobile. Under the settlements, the companies have agreed to improve their data security practices and to pay the states a combined amount of more than $16 million. Pennsylvania will receive $464,000 from these settlements.

“These data breaches will keep happening until we force change in corporate behavior,” said AG Shapiro. “Experian and T-Mobile failed in their responsibility to safeguard consumers’ personal information. Their systems were vulnerable to a massive data breach, and the personal identifying information for millions of Americans was put at risk. This settlement ensures that Experian & T-Mobile must do the right thing and fix the security failures that led to a preventable data breach.”

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